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    the 1825-1850s since it involves beliefs‚ values‚ ideas and freedom.

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    In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history‚ known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and South‚ which would eventually end in greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus

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    Manifest Destiny was an idea defined by John L. O’Sullivan that it was the god given right of the of the American people to expand westward‚ to christianize and to utilize the land. Many things brought people West but One things that stood from the rest is the California Gold Rush of 1848. Many things happened out West that some view differently including wars and disagreement over land with other powerful Countries. But some question that; Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent

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    its seed‚ making it dramatically faster and less expensive to turn picked cotton into usable cotton for textiles. Eli Whitney invented the gin in 1794‚ and by 1850 the tool had changed the face of Southern agriculture. Before Whitney’s gin entered into widespread use‚ the United States produced roughly 750‚000 bales of hay‚ in 1830. By 1850 that amount had exploded to 2.85 million bales. This production was concentrated almost exclusively in the South‚ because of the weather conditions needed for

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    northeast.Between the years of 1830 and 1860‚ immigration from many Europeans countries very much shows that the United States has been a land of refuge and opportunity for immigrants. Because of the high rate of immigrants‚ looking for refuge from the problems of their homeland‚ the population of the United States shot up by about six million. The flow of immigrants‚ choked off by wars in Europe in the first three decades of the nineteenth century‚ revived in the 1830s. The foreign-born population

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    Parties Van Buren believed that political parties and that partisan competition could be a good thing‚ and political parties can help save and preserve the union. People are going to disagree it is important that partisan divisions not be based on sectionalism (north‚ south). Buren hoped to bring together northerners and southerners in political parties. If they came together in a political party then they could not talk about slavery. Parties could help keep their opponents honest. Keeping the public

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    the Industrial Revolutions? INVENTORS • The role of woman in middle-class families changed from _____ _____ to _____ _____during the Industrial Revolution. INCOME PRODUCER‚ INCOME CONSUMER THE ECONOMIC REVOLUJTION: 1820S to 1850S  The Economic Revolution was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: o Transportation: Canals and Railroads- First canal was the Erie Canal o Communication: Samual

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    at the Battle of New Orleans (1815). A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s‚ as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated forced relocation and resettlement of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River. His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party. The 18301850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.[1] Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" because

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    in the afternoon‚ and then wrote in the evening. In 1828 he published his first book anonymously‚ Fanshawe. He later then destroyed all copies and was not proud of it. His first publication that was a success was “The Token”‚ and “Peter Parley”. In 1830 he served as an editor for a number of publications. He also began to write children’s books. He then took a job in a custom house. In 1840 he left his job knowing that he would soon be fired due to the outcome of the election going on during that

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    the locomotive. The first trains began to run in America in the 1830s along the East Coast. By the 1840s‚ the nation’s railway networks extended throughout the East‚ South‚ and Midwest‚ and the idea of building a railroad across the nation to the Pacific gained momentum. The annexation of the California territory following the Mexican-American War‚ the discovery of gold in the region in 1848‚ and statehood for California in 1850 further spurred the interest to unite the country as thousands of

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